getoption

#!/usr/bin/env python
'''An improved getopt module which only treat short options.
'''
 
import sys, getopt
def short(options):
    try: 
        opts,args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'i:m:o:')
    except getopt.GetoptError, err:
        print str(err)
    values = [] 
    for o, a in opts:
        values.append(a)
    values.append(args)
    return values